IaaS Contracts in Scotland

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring IaaS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IaaS over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 136 144
Rank change year-on-year +36 +8 +1
Contract jobs citing IaaS 15 28 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.70% 1.05% 0.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.09% 2.85% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 17 20
10th Percentile £423 £413 £436
25th Percentile £425 £425 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £470 £525
Median % change year-on-year +38.45% -10.57% +23.53%
75th Percentile £688 £550 £605
90th Percentile - £610 £700
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £78.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -66.67% +4.00% +25.00%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

IaaS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 719 983 1,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.55% 36.79% 33.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 500 729 843
10th Percentile £213 £250 £313
25th Percentile £369 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £627 £621 £661
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 17
10th Percentile £16.22 £17.72 £17.74
25th Percentile £16.50 £26.63 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.92% +49.51% -40.66%
75th Percentile £21.64 £66.50 £47.96
90th Percentile £30.09 £76.00 £49.56
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing IaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in Scotland

IaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IaaS in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for IaaS in Scotland

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IaaS in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in Scotland

IaaS
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +21 10 £664 +30.21% 4
Glasgow +14 4 £450 +0.90% 5
Renfrewshire - 1 £600 -
IaaS
UK

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 7 (46.67%) PaaS
3 5 (33.33%) AWS
4 4 (26.67%) AWS CodeBuild
4 4 (26.67%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 4 (26.67%) AWS CodePipeline
4 4 (26.67%) SaaS
5 3 (20.00%) iPaaS
6 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (13.33%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
7 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) DNS
1 3 (20.00%) LAN
1 3 (20.00%) WAN
2 1 (6.67%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (6.67%) Big Data
2 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) Cucumber
2 2 (13.33%) Cypress.io
2 2 (13.33%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) Selenium
2 2 (13.33%) Subversion
2 2 (13.33%) TeamCity
2 2 (13.33%) WebDriver
General
1 10 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Back Office
3 4 (26.67%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Finance
5 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Cloud Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Senior
2 4 (26.67%) Technical Architect
3 3 (20.00%) AWS Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Functional Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Functional Test Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Technical Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Test Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Test Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Automation Test Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Scrum Master
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) .NET
2 4 (26.67%) REST
2 4 (26.67%) SOAP
3 3 (20.00%) J2EE
3 3 (20.00%) Web Services
4 1 (6.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Client/Server
2 3 (20.00%) N-Tier
3 2 (13.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (6.67%) Clustering
4 1 (6.67%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (40.00%) Migration
3 5 (33.33%) Agile
3 5 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 5 (33.33%) SOA
3 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (26.67%) API Management
4 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (26.67%) High Availability
4 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (26.67%) Project Delivery
4 4 (26.67%) Service Management
4 4 (26.67%) Storage Management
4 4 (26.67%) Technical Architecture
4 4 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (20.00%) Kanban
5 3 (20.00%) Security Architecture
5 3 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (13.33%) C#
2 2 (13.33%) C++
2 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) VBA
2 2 (13.33%) VBScript
3 1 (6.67%) Perl
3 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (13.33%) ISEB
1 2 (13.33%) ISTQB
1 2 (13.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
4 1 (6.67%) Docker
4 1 (6.67%) Firmware
4 1 (6.67%) KVM
4 1 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
2 2 (13.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (6.67%) Ansible
3 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) Nagios
3 1 (6.67%) Puppet
3 1 (6.67%) vCenter Server
3 1 (6.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) VMware
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle